http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/simpson/091006
October 6, 2009
By Jim Simpson
Last Friday, we posted an article on these pages asserting Bill
Ayers' authorship of President Barack Obama's 'Dreams From My
Father,' based on claims made by Obama biographer Christopher
Andersen. It is possible that we have now gotten direct confirmation
of this from Bill Ayers himself.
Anne Leary of Back Yard Conservative was passing through Washington,
DC's Reagan National Airport yesterday, and was surprised to come
across Bill Ayers at Starbucks: "scruffy, thinning beard, dippy
earring, and the wire rims, heading to order."
She struck up a conversation with him and snapped the accompanying photo.
I interviewed Anne this morning about it.
Ayers was in Washington, he told her, for a conference on education.
"That's what I do, education," he said. "You shouldn't believe
everything you hear about me... You know nothing about me."
To which she responded, "I said, I know plenty I'm from Chicago, a
conservative blogger, and I'll post this."
I bet his heart skipped a beat on that one.
But he didn't scowl, and didn't run off as he has been known to do.
Instead, unprompted, he blurted out: "I wrote 'Dreams From My
Father... Michelle asked me to." Then he added "And if you can prove
it we can split the royalties."
Anne responded, "Stop pulling my leg!"
But he repeated insistently, "I wrote it, the wording was similar [to
Ayers' other writing.]"
Anne responded, "I believe you probably heavily edited it."
Ayers stated firmly, "I wrote it."
Anne ended the conversation by saying "why would I believe you? You're a liar."
Good for her. But we are left to wonder. Despite her parting shot,
Anne was convinced Ayers was in earnest. He was making a public
statement. He wanted this news out there.
Was he, as she had asked, pulling our collective legs? Other sources
report rumors that Ayers is very upset both about not getting any
credit for helping Obama on 'Dreams,' and may also be put off by
being summarily thrown under the bus along with Rev. Wright and
everyone else who becomes an inconvenience to this President.
My understanding of communists is that most would know better and
keep their mouths shut. But Ayers is a bit different. He is, as he
says, a "small 'c' communist," but he is also, in a certain, slimy
way, an entrepreneur, as we explained in Monday's post. (Apologies in
advance to entrepreneurs everywhere.) He grew up a very rich kid,
used to getting everything he wanted. Even as an adult his career has
relied on a hand up from his wealthy father. His past statements and
radical activities also mark him as a megalomaniac. In youth he drew
attention to himself by blowing things up. As an adult "educator" he
merely attempts to subvert children. But that doesn't seem to be going so well.
He is under a lot of pressure, too. Ayers and his horrid wife
Bernardine Dohrn are believed to have planned and executed the San
Francisco Park Police Station bombing in 1970 that killed police
sergeant Brian V. McDonnell and wounded several others. Efforts to
bring them to justice have been underway for some time, as brought to
light this past March in a National Press Club conference put on by
Cliff Kincaid of America's Survival.
Cliff's guests included Larry Grathwohl, the FBI's undercover agent
who penetrated Ayers' Weather Underground and produced this stunning
testimony about Ayers' plan to massacre 25 million Americans, retired
S.F. policeman James Pera, first on the scene at the bombing, and
veteran researcher Trevor Loudon.
Now, a recent exposé by San Francisco reporter Peter Jamison has
revealed additional evidence, including testimony from other Weather
Underground members, that Dohrn planted the bomb that killed Sgt. McDonnell.
Maybe in his overstressed state Bill's megalomania has just gotten
the better of him.
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